Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
4-2020
Publication Title
Sixth International Conference on Higher Education Advances
Abstract
MOCCA-C is an assessment of adult reading ability designed for early diagnosis of reading problems, for formative assessment in reading intervention planning, for assessment of reading improvement over time, and for assessment of reading intervention outcomes. It uses both narrative and expository reading passages and it currently has four forms. Two goals of this research were to compare narrative and expository passages on (a) their difficulty and (b) their ability to discriminate between good and poor readers. An additional goal was to assess whether narrative and expository passages measure the same or different comprehension dimensions. A final goal was to assess the reliability of forms. We randomly assigned students to forms with between 274 – 279 college students per form. Across the several forms, results suggest that narrative passages are easier and better discriminate between good and poor readers. However, both narrative and expository passages measure a single dimension of ability. MOCCA-C scores are reliable. Implications for research and practice are discussed.
First Page
417
Last Page
425
DOI
10.4995/HEAd20.2020.11081
Creative Commons License
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Recommended Citation
Mark L. Davison, Ben Seipel, Virginia Clinton-Lisell, et al.. "MOCCA College: An Assessment of Inferential Narrative and Expository Comprehension" (2020). Education, Health & Behavior Studies Faculty Publications. 65.
https://commons.und.edu/ehb-fac/65